Google is a company which is mostly renowned for its moto “Don’t be evil” but in past few years Google has become very serious about generating money and blocking out all loopholes which tech nerds used to use for getting stuffs for free. If you have an old Google Apps a.k.a G Suite legacy account you might have free user limit starting from 10 to 2,000. I’ve seen many Google Apps a.k.a G Suite legacy account that has around 200 free user limit but the owner of that account can barely use it for his current business.

The reason behind this is that having a Google Apps legacy account with 200 or more free users means it is a really old Google Apps free account which Google later renamed as Google Apps legacy account and removed many cool features from those legacy accounts, like Migration, adding Secondary Domain etc. to encourage users to opt for their paid plan i.e. $5/user/month.

The Golden Days are Back again though Google has officially block legacy users to add secondary domain or change the primary domain but I’ve figured out a loophole in Google Apps system to Swap Primary Domain or adding Secondary Domain for Google Apps legacy account. To know more, jump to the updated section of this post.

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Now Google officially stopped allowing the secondary domain addition for Google Apps legacy accounts back in 2012 and legacy users are only been allowed to add domain alias instead of a complete secondary domain name. But till 28th August 2015 I was able to add secondary domain to Google Apps legacy accounts by doing a simple and popular upgradation trick as follows:

Click on upgrade to trial of Google Apps for Business

Go to Domains section, add & verify your domain name

Downgrade back to your legacy free account before you run out of your trial period

But now, IT’S NO MORE POSSIBLE. That’s right. I’ve tried to do the same thing a few weeks back in September and now you cannot downgrade back to your legacy account unless you remove your secondary domain name that you have added after the upgradation.

I know that the only reason people was able to perform the trick for all this time is because there was a minor loophole/bug which was present in Google Apps down-gradation service and never actually gets fixed by Google. But now it seems Google has fixed the loophole and those legacy free Google Apps account are completely out of work if you still don’t use the primary domain.

What about Domain Alias? What’s the difference?

Domain alias is nothing but a new name to the same email address. This is really important if you have same domain name with various TLDs. Let’s say you have a multinational company and you use Google Apps for your business needs. Now though www.example.com might be your primary company domain but for different countries you may also have the following domain names:

Now obviously you do not want to create separate email id for same person with different domain TLDs, right? Because it will be impossible for that person to manage all those email account. This is where Domain Alias kicks in. If you have an employee email as jhon@example.com and if you add all your different country domains as Domain Alias, even if someone email to jhon@example.in it will be delivered to jhon@example.com automatically but the address will still show the .in domain name. Cool right? I know, this is the actual implementation of domain alias. So, in short domain alias won’t give you a new email address.

So, what’s the way then?

Well, Google has covered all of its loopholes (thanks to the internet for sharing them publicly) and made sure that you cannot access your Google Apps legacy account lifelong by keep adding new secondary domain, unless you have access to Google Apps for Education or Google Apps for Non-Profit or Google Apps for Government. For these three Google Apps category the general legacy rule doesn’t apply. That’s right.

So, I guess now you have only 2 ways either you get and of those above three mentioned accounts (which is really hard to get, really hard) or you pay $5/user/month to Google if you are happy with 25GB Google Storage and if you want unlimited, well pay $10/user/month. That’s the end of the story.

There is no way you can add new secondary domain to Google Apps legacy account anymore. The most shocking thing is Google has release this patch so quietly that almost no one have noticed this change unless they tried to do it on their account. Google just added a new link to their “Downgrade to legacy Free edition” help article. See the screenshot below for more.

Golden Days are Back Again(Updated – 15th March 2016)

Yes, it is true. Just a few days back when Google has stopped legacy users from changing their primary domain, I started digging deep for new loophole and after spending a lot of money and time I’ve at last figured out a way not only just to swap the primary domains of Google Apps a.k.a G Suite legacy account but also adding secondary domains (max 2 including existing secondary domain, if any) as we like. I know this sounds very tempting and somewhat unbelievable, but its is true. Unfortunately I cannot share the loophole publicly, because if I do like the way I did it last time, Google bots are going to crawl the process and then report it to Google so that they can again take it down by issuing a patch. And trust me if they fix this loophole too, then there is no other way will be left for us to use Google Apps a.k.a G Suite legacy account with new domains.

Please note at any cost, I cannot share the process with you. If you want me to do it for you at a bare minimum price, please fill up the following order form and I will do it for you. I know you might be scared thinking how can you trust me with your logins? Well I can tell you this much, I have no intention to harm your account instead of helping you to keep your legacy account forever. If you still hesitate about it, read the comments before filling up the order form. 🙂 Trust me, I’m here to help you. 🙂

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Google Apps Domain Change Order Form

Order form for Google Apps Primary or Secondary Domain Upgrade

General Information

Basic information about you

Your Name*

FirstLast

Contact Email*

Not necessarily your Google Apps email. Any email id which you check always so that if I email you, you can instantly get it.

Google Apps Admin Login Information

Please provide your Google Apps Legacy Account's Super Admin Login and Password. You can reset the passwords after the work is done.

Google Apps Super Admin Login Email*

Super Admin Login Password*

Please Note that, I do NOT need your login to do my work. If you are not comfortable with providing your own super admin login, don't share it, instead, create a new temp user for me and give it Super Admin Privilege so that I can do my work. In this way I will not have access to any other account but the temp one you have created for me.

Things you want me to do

You can either request for swapping your primary domain or adding a new secondary domain name.

I want to:*

Swap my Primary Domain

Add a new Secondary Domain

After swapping your primary domain, do you want to keep your old domain in your account?*

Yes

No

If you select "Yes", then answer the next question to let me know in which state you want to keep the old domain, as "Secondary Domain" or "Domain Alias".

How do you want to keep the existing primary domain in your account?*

As Domain Alias

As Secondary Domain

"Domain Alias" will auto forward any emails send to that domain to the respective primary domain user account whereas with "Secondary Domain" you will be able to to create separate mailboxes with your old primary domain name

Please Note If you are requesting for keeping your old primary domain as secondary domain, then I have to rename your existing users to the new primary domain and then in the end after I add your old primary domain as secondary domain, you can rename them back to the old primary domain.

How many Secondary Domains do you wanna add?*

Please enter a number from 1 to 2.

Do you have existing Secondary Domain in your Google Apps account?*

Yes

No

Please note that I'm only asking about "Secondary Domain" and not about "Domain Alias"

Please Note that if you have any secondary domain associated with your Google Apps account and you wanna keep them, I have to delete and re-add those secondary domains in order to get the work done. So, if your have any users associated with that secondary domain, please note I'll rename it to @primary domain. Also if you account already have 3-4 secondary domain, nothing can be done on that account. I can handle 1 or 2 existing secondary domain but not more than that. But even then also I've to delete the secondary domains and re-add them. If you are still confused, you can drop me an email at support[at]isaumya.com to clear your doubts.

Do you have phone number associated with your Google Account?*

Yes

No

Please provide your phone number associated with this Google Account*

Please Note if you have enabled 2 Step Verification for the Google Account login details you are providing above, please DISABLE 2 Step Verification before placing the order. It makes the entire workflow extremely complicated and time consuming. After I'm done, you can re-enable it.

New Domain Name*

Any Extra Note ?

if there is anything else you want to request/mention.

Total Payable

$0.00

All payments are done through PayPal.

Please Note: If you are from INDIA and you are having any difficulty to complete the order through PayPal, please do send me a message at support[at]isaumya.com and I will guide you though the alternate payment method.

Some FAQ

Here are some frequently asked questions by most of the people on whose Google Apps legacy account I’ve already worked on. Hope this will help you to get your required answers easily.

What is a Domain Alias in Google Apps ?

As the term “Alias” suggests, Domain Aliases are the domain name which will not be used to create new separate emails ids, rather it will link to the email ids you already have with your primary domain.

As an example lets say in your Google Apps account you have primary domain named example.com, but as you have a multinational business, you have country specific domains too, like example.co.in, example.fr, example.tk etc. Now if you create 3 separate email ids for each of your employee, say jhon@example.com, jhon@example.co.in & jhon@example.tk. That person (Jhon) has to maintain all three email accounts daily and it would become a nightmare.

Now if you add example.com as primary domain of your Google Apps account but example.co.in, example.tk as domain aliases, then even if someone sends an email to jhon@example.tk it will still go to jhon@example.com and the person has to maintain only one email id.

What is a Secondary Domain in Google Apps ?

Unlike Domain Aliases, secondary domain will allows you to create separate email ids with separate domain name. So, if you have example.co.in and example.tk added as secondary domain in your account, you will be able to create two separate email ids, i.e. jerry@example.co.in and jhon@example.tk – which is something you won’t be able to do with Domain Alias.

No. As shown in the screenshot above, in the Domain section of Google Apps If you see that your primary domain is associated with Google Partners like eNom, Godaddy etc. there is no way to change primary domain in that account, but I can ADD SECONDRY DOMAINS in that account. It’s just they won’t be primary domain.

Do you provide Google Apps legacy account ?

Yes I do. Just drop me an email to support[at]isaumya.com with the user limit you wants to have in your new Google Apps Legacy account and I will let you know the pricing of it.

Is it possible to reduce the price from 30$ ?

If there is a way, I would have done it. I hate overcharging people. The loophole I use is needs to be handled very precisely and delicately to make sure no harm comes to your legacy account. As a Google Apps legacy user myself, I understand the importance of your account and I make sure no harms comes to your account.

Now to do this, I have to work really hard on each and every single one of the accounts. I’m more than proud to say that I’ve already worked on more than 300 accounts and not a single one of them has ever faced any single issue. So, trust me when I say this 30$ is a very reasonable price that I’m asking from you considering the amount of work I’m putting in each account.

Do you provide discount on bulk order?

Well, as I’ve already explained in the previous question that it is really hard to provide discount considering the efforts, but still of you want to place order for 10 or more account, I can provide you 20% discount on the total price. Drop me a mail at support[at]isaumya.com before placing bulk orders.

Why my emails are not getting sent properly after domain change ?

A lot of people have asked me this question after changing their primary domain. Please note just because your domain is added in the Google Apps account as primary domain doesn’t mean that your emails will start working at that very moment. To make sure your emails gets send amd received properly you have to add Google MX records in your primary/secondary domain’s DNS. After the MX records are updated, your emails will fly like an eagle.

Can I upgrade my account after you change my domain?

I will not suggest you to do that especially if your account has secondary domain associated with it. Because if you upgrade, you won’t be able to downgrade. But if I change your primary domain and then you delete your old primary domain (becomes secondary domain after primary domain swap) from your account, so that your account has only 1 primary domain and no secondary domain, then you can upgrade and downgrade back without any issue. But again this is something I will not recommend anyone to do.

Is this process still working?

If any day Google patches the loophole that I use and I’m unable to provide this service for any given time, I will update that in the article. Then after I find a new loophole in Google’s system again, I will mention that in the article too. So, if nothing is mentioned like that in the article that means the process I’m using is working fine and you are good to place your order.

Conclusion

In conclusion I will not say that Google has become evil because the made this change, rather I will say that according to their 2012 post this thing should never be happen in the first place instead till the end of 2015 we have taken advantage of a Google Apps bugs and now we are so addicted to it that we are blaming Google to fix it’s bug. Instead we must always know that whenever a trick gets published on internet, it is just a matter of days before it gets patched by the respective company.

Besides it’s not Google who is doing this, keeping on par with cloud boom every email service provider has closed their free hosted email service and made it a paid version. Be it Google or Microsoft, the story is same everywhere.

But if you have added you secondary domain to your Google Apps legacy account before this Google patch has been rolled out, your secondary domain will remain active as long as you will use that account. Just you won’t be able to add any more secondary domain to your legacy account.

Feedback

So, what do you think about this Google Apps legacy account changes? Are you also angry (like me) for this with Google? Does this patch made your Google Apps legacy account good for nothing? Share all of your thoughts about this with me in the comment section below.

You can also connect with me via twitter @iSaumya. If you like this post, please don’t forget to share it with others who might enjoy reading it. Also if you have any other ideas or request about future posts, you can let me know in the comment section below or via twitter.

Hey Joshi, Now you gan again get Google Apps Legacy accounts if you want. As per gaapps.com blog http://j.mp/1RHcdDn they will set your domain as the primary domain of that account. So, again you are good to go I guess. 🙂

It’ll be interesting to know if anybody has working GApps purchased from them in recent times. As Google has certainly blocked that loophole for adding new secondary domain in legacy edition, like you mentioned, what they claim can only be true if they’ve invented another loophole ….

Yah, but you could have purchased one Google Apps legacy account for each domain. In that way you had to pay one instead of monthly. But if you can afford the monthly payment, I will always suggest to go for it. 🙂

I have been using google apps free edition for my small business. We had added an additional domain on it long back. So we have 2 email addresses possible e.g. pqr@abc.com and pqr@xyz.com. Now i want to add one more domain like this. I have successfully added it as a alias of abc.com but I am unable to create users with the new domain alias added. One of my existing email addresses is a paid email address. Can you please help?

Domain alias is not a secondary domain. To know the different between secondary domain and domain alias, check this: support.google.com/a/answer/175747 and read the question “What’s the difference between adding a domain vs. domain alias?”. It is the fourth question from the top.

Dear SM , I am interested for my clients . I have Domains and Hosting control panels with me and email services are running from different service provider . What is the procedure if we want to shift domain on google apps with your solutions . If this work i have enormous client to whom i can offer the same services . Regards G S

I am interested in this service for myself. I have 2 Domains. 1 domain that I’ve had on a legacy Google apps account since 2008 & 1 domain that I just signed up via the G suite trial. My domain with the G suite trial is about to expire and I was wondering if you could add this domain (g suite trial) to the legacy account? (even if I have to reset/erase that trial g suite etc. and start over)

Let me know if I can this other domain into my legacy account and I will pay you happily for your services.

Thank you, and I look forward to hearing from you, Gregory

Edit: To be clear; I want to add a secondary domain to my legacy account.

Hi Saumya, Are you still providing this service? Please let me know, then I will submit a request.

One question: I upgraded the free google apps account to a paid account with 30-day trial period to add one more secondary domain (the account already has one secondary domain). That’s when I found out that this was not allowed anymore. So I switched back to a free account. Will this be a problem for you? I did this recently, about 30 or so days ago…

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